communities

nounsociety, area of people
nounagreement, similarity

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Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French comunité "community, commonness, everybody" (Modern French communauté), from Latin communitatem (nominative communitas) "community, society, fellowship, friendly intercourse; courtesy, condescension, affability," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common (adj.)). Latin communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED].

An Old English word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," from mæne "common, public, general," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis. Community service as a criminal sentence is recorded from 1972, American English. Community college is recorded from 1959.

Example Sentences forcommunities

To the quarrels of communities are added the combats of individuals.

Fortunately, there are millions of communities in the world.

It may even be true that there are communities which have gained a higher level.

There are churches and communities of which these statements are not true.

Communities have been chaotic, socially, economically, and educationally.

Among the most interesting of these communities is the black colony in St. Louis.

In the schools of purely Greek communities only the Greek language will be taught.

The selection and articulation of these men in all communities is all that is necessary.

Gregarious: living in societies or communities; but not social.

In all the Dutch communities in New York it was woven till this century.